Vintage SS Normandie French Lines Ocean Liner Lunch menu Original CGT 1939

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Estate sale find, vintage original S.S. Normandie luncheon menu for Thursday, June 15, 1939
, displays nicely.
The SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
Her novel design and lavish interiors led many to consider her the greatest of ocean liners. During service as the flagship of the CGT, she made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings from her home port of Le Havre to New York.
Normandie held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing at several points during her service career, during which the RMS Queen Mary was her main rival.
During World War II, Normandie was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS Lafayette. In 1942, the liner caught fire while being converted to a troopship, capsized onto her port side and came to rest on the mud of the Hudson River at Pier 88.
Although salvaged at great expense, restoration was deemed too costly and she was scrapped in October 1946.
The menu is approximately 8.25" X 10.5", approximate shipping weight: 5 ounces.
PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The item is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with signs of wear, creases, fading, tears, chipping, scuffs, sunning and age toning, soiling, stains, no writing, no odors, please see images.
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